Sim Chi Yin’s performance lecture at Asia Art Archive in America (11/01/2023)


Asia Art Archive in America presented a performance lecture, Methods Of Memory – Time Travels in the Archives, by the artist Sim Chi Yin on December 2, 2022. Over the past decade, artist Sim Chi Yin has been excavating the hidden histories of the anti-colonial war in the former British colony of Malaya. Starting from a place of personal history, her multi-disciplinary research and artistic project, One Day We’ll Understand, works to complicate the historiography of the so-called “Malayan Emergency” (1948 to 1960) through multiple modes of archiving / counter-archiving and art-making. In this performance lecture on the decolonization history that has echoes in much of the Global South, she uses letter-writing to explore memory, erasure, gaps in the archive, and specters of colonialism. 

https://www.aaa-a.org/programs/sim-chi-yin-methods-of-memory-time-travels-in-the-archives

Image: Sim Chi Yin, Remnants #11, from “One Day We’ll Understand”, 2017. Archival pigment print, 110.5 x 110.5 cm.